US Patent Issued to ARB on June 3 for "Receptacle assemblies and locking systems for such assemblies" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,001, issued on June 3, was assigned to ARB Corporation Limited (Kilsyth, Australia).

"Receptacle assemblies and locking systems for such assemblies" was invented by Paul William Cooper (Kilsyth, Australia), John Desmond Clark (Kilsyth, Australia) and Andrew Harry Brown (Kilsyth, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Runner assembly 10 for carrying a receptacle 12 towards and away from a structure 14. The runner assembly 10 includes: at least one pair of first bearings 16, each first bearing 16 being mountable to the structure 14 so that the first bearings 16 of the, or each, pair are spaced apart; an elongate runner 18 defining a l...